The Miami Heat — yes, the same team you’ve been watching all season — are the most face-melting offense juggernaut in these here 2016 NBA Playoffs so far. That’s the only conclusion you can reach after the heat dismantled the Charlotte Hornets for the second-straight game last night. It’s also…
To many residents in Coconut Grove, trees are sacred. The neighborhood has long been known for its giant oaks, banyans and hardwoods that create an iconic tree cover. But over the last decade, that cover has been under increasing threat. As the neighborhood has undergone rapid development, some of the…
Teachers of the year, they were not: one was accused of punching a 17-year-old girl who refused to have sex with him and the second, of sending inappropriate texts and nude photos to male students. Late last month, both Miami-Dade educators were banned from teaching in Florida ever again. The…
In a letter to the Miami Beach Commission, City Manager Jimmy L. Morales has detailed what he believes went wrong and lead to the trash disaster after this weekend’s Floatopia event. His explanation can be best summed up by lightly tweaking some classic Milli Vanilli lyrics: ” Blame it on the rain…
Finally! Someone has combined the hit broadway musical you can’t stop hearing about and the failed presidential candidate you haven’t heard much about for two months. Yes, folks, Jeb!: An American Disappointment, a parody of Hamilton, is here to the delight of, well, some. Unfortunately, it’s not a fully staged…
According to a financial rule of thumb, a person should spend about 50 percent of his or her after-tax income on necessities. That includes things like rent, food, utilities, health care, and transportation. Another 30 percent should be spent on discretionary purchases, and the remaining 20 percent should be stashed…
Well, that didn’t take long. Less than two years after LeBron James left the Heat, here they are, not only back in the NBA playoffs, but back in a position to fight for another trip to the NBA Finals. The Heat’s retooling and transformation since the Big Three era has…
Retired Miami-Dade Police Det. Greg Smith spent 31 years investigating some of Miami’s most brutal crimes, from drug-fueled shootouts to heartbreaking family disputes turned violent. But ask him which killing he can’t get out of his mind, and he’ll answer without a moment’s hesitation: the 1967 murder of Coral Gables…
Rumors of Fidel Castro’s death have been greatly exaggerated for decades. Reports about the exact state of his health have notoriously been hard to verify. But now that Castro is 89 and rarely seen in public anymore, it’s likely that he won’t live much longer. In a rare public speech…
Maybe you remember Miami-Dade County Judge Jacqueline Schwartz from previous headlines. She’s the judge who told a Coconut Grove convenience store clerk to “go fuck yourself” in a row involving an opponent’s campaign sign. She also once sent out an election victory e-mail boasting about being an “Anglo” who defeated…
Miami’s cuteness quotient is about to fly off the charts. Over the past few months, as the weather warmed, stray cats across South Florida got, well, frisky. And now, hundreds of furry bundles of joy are being born across Miami-Dade. Sadly, many of those kittens are abandoned by their mothers…
The poster-sized map on Bruce Mowry’s desk is scrawled with blotchy patches of red, showing elevations across Miami Beach. Everywhere 2.2 feet or lower is shaded in deep crimson. That’s the same height, incidentally, that water reached last September during the King Tide, the highest nonstorm water level ever recorded…
In the midst of an already tense weekend on Miami Beach, David H. Johnson uploaded a video on Facebook informing friends that he had been robbed and was temporarily without a phone. His face was marred with stitches, contusions and scrapes, and the video soon spread outside of his friend…
Climate change? Real estate slow down? Rising rents? Continued unease about the health of the local economy? Apparently none of those concerns can curb growth in Downtown Miami. According to a new report from Realtor.com, the downtown zip code of 33132 is expected to be the fourth fastest growing neighborhood…
The TV ad opens with Chris Bosh sinking a three in a dark practice gym and then turning solemnly toward the camera. “When I was sidelined with blood clots in my lungs, it was serious,” the ten-time All-Star says. “Fortunately, my doctor had a game plan.” The camera then catches…
Well, congratulations Miami. We’ve ruined Floatopia. The latest edition of the biannual beach bacchanal boosting all things buoyant drew tens of thousands of revelers to South Pointe Park on Saturday, but the partiers left behind mountains of trash. Now city officials are calling for an end to the event, seemingly…
The home ownership rate in Miami is down to historic lows, and most millennials in the metro area won’t in the market to buy a home anytime soon. According to a new survey by Apartment List, 81 percent of local millennials feel buying a home is just too expensive. This…
Well, this is unfortunate timing. Just weeks after famed architect Zaha Hadid died in a Miami Beach hospital, the city of Miami Beach has decided not to go ahead with plans to build a Hadid-designed public parking garage in the Collins Park neighborhood. The city commissioned Hadid, a part-time Beach…
Jeb Bush has been out of the presidential race for almost two months, but Donald Trump apparently loves to lambast the former Florida gov. Lil’ Jebbers was Trump’s favorite target during the debates. The mogul seemed to relish metaphorically wrapping his stubby little digits around Bush’s jowls any chance he…
This Sunday, the Miami Heat will play an NBA playoff game for the first time since June 15th, 2014. Finally, all is right in the world again. The playoff berth is all the more notable because the Heat epically pooped their pants against the Boston Celtics on Wednesday in a…
A lot of odd things happen in Florida every week. On Friday, we’re here to bring you some of the weirdest. This week: the bubble man fails to ride again, a man’s arrest report has almost as much going on as his face tattoo collection, a horny fake cop, and…
Forty-three-year-old Alex Sanchez spent just one night in jail last October after he was arrested for growing weed at his house in Kendall. When he returned home, the electricity wasn’t working. Sanchez called to figure out what was up and stumbled upon a little-known county ordinance that prevented him from…
